Students with disabilities have the responsibility to

Self-identify and self-advocate for accommodations, services, and auxiliary aids.

Provide the university with acceptable documentation of disability prior to the authorization for any accommodation, service, or academic adjustment.

Demonstrate and/or provide documentation how their disability limits their participation in courses, services, and activities.

Follow established policies and procedures for obtaining accommodation.

Buy required textbooks prior to requesting alternate format texts.

Submit requests for alternate format texts in a timely manner.

Attend class according to syllabus or adjusted requirements. Inform the office for Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) and professors of any absences from class related to a documented disability as soon as possible. In some cases a note of medical services may be required.

Make every effort to use and understand technology and services to support their own learning and physical needs.

Communicate with professors throughout the semester about needs and effectiveness of certain accommodations.

Remind professors of accommodations needed for testing at least three week-days in advance.

Make arrangements with the Academic Support Center or regional center for accommodations in a timely manner and keep all appointments.

Inform the SSD of changes in condition or new recommendations from qualified specialists.

Inform the SSD of difficulties obtaining services or ineffective accommodations at FPU facilities.

Keep in regular contact with mentor/advisor for accountability to the highest academic standards.

Use accommodations of extended due dates and leniency with attendance only when absolutely necessary and with appropriate communication with professors.

Do make-up work for class sessions missed due to disability issues if assigned.

Fresno Pacific University has the right to:

Confirm disability status of a student (for accommodation purposes) after requesting, receiving, and reviewing current and appropriate documentation. The documentation must support any request for accommodations, academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and services.

Discuss and develop accommodation strategies for students with disabilities.

Deny a request for an accommodation, academic adjustment, auxiliary aid, or services, if the student’s documentation of disability does not corroborate the need or support the student’s request.

Deny any accommodation, academic adjustment, auxiliary aid, service, or facility-related request that imposes an undue financial or administrative burden on the institution.

Fresno Pacific University has the responsibility to:

Develop an educational accommodation plan for each student that chooses to register with Services for Students with Disabilities. The plan will authorize certain accommodations, academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and services that may mitigate the impact of a student’s disability in the major life activity of learning.

Provide readily accessible information to faculty, staff, and students regarding disability policies mandated by law (state and federal) and implementing procedures available to the university.

Ensure that courses, programs, services, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are accessible in the most integrated and appropriate settings.

Evaluate student performance based on ability, not disability.

Respond to requests for accommodations and access to courses, programs, services, activities, and facilities in a timely manner.

Maintain all documentation verifying disability in a secure environment that ensures confidentiality.

Inform other students in a class if the class is being recorded.

Subsequent to the receipt of appropriate documentation, an educational accommodation plan will be developed based on the following criterion:

Does the student have a disability? “Disability” is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 as amended (ADA) as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.